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The PORTAL of HORRORWikipedia portals: Culture · Geography · Health · History · Mathematics · Natural sciences · Philosophy · Religion · Society · Technology Welcome to the PORTAL of HORRORWelcome to Wikipedia's portal of horror fiction and horror film. Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil or occasionally misunderstood supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror." Horror fiction often overlaps with science fiction and/or fantasy, all of which have sometimes been placed under the umbrella category speculative fiction. In film, the horror genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear, terror, disgust, or horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, into the mundane world. Selected Article In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folkloric belief in vampires has been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited. The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula which is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, and television shows. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre. Selected Picture
Selected Biography Born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, Poe's parents died when he was young. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe and the Allans parted ways. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.[1] Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. This day in horrorDid you know?
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Featured horror content Featured articles: Films: Alien vs. Predator • Cannibal Holocaust • The Cat and the Canary (1927) • Gremlins • Gremlins 2: The New Batch • Halloween (1978) • Halloween II • Halloween III: Season of the Witch • Jaws • Manos: The Hands of Fate • The Mummy (1999) • Night of the Living Dead • The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) • System Shock • Tenebrae • Witchfinder General • Zodiac Games: Silent Hill 4: The Room Writers: Edgar Allan Poe • H.P. Lovecraft • Mary Shelley Characters: Jason Voorhees Creatures: Vampire Good Articles: Films: Alien (film) • Alien Resurrection • Aliens • Beetlejuice • Bride of Frankenstein • Dracula's Daughter • Eyes Without a Face • Friday the 13th (franchise) • Ginger Snaps (film) • Grindhouse (film) • Grizzly Rage • Halloween (2007 film) • Hannibal • I Am Legend • Jaws 2 • Jaws 3-D • Jaws: The Revenge • King Kong (2005) • Maneater (film) • The Orphanage (2007 film) • Psycho (1960) • Resident Evil • Resident Evil: Apocalypse • Resident Evil: Extinction • Silent Hill • Sleepy Hollow • Snakes on a Plane • The Rocky Horror Picture Show • The Stone Tape • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • Ultime grida dalla savana Games: Doom 3 • F.E.A.R. • Silent Hill 2 • Silent Hill 3 • Silent Hill Homecoming • System Shock 2 • Novels: "Botan Dōrō" • "Frankenstein" • "Yotsuya Kaidan" Franchises: Friday the 13th (franchise) • Halloween (franchise) • Subspecies • Characters: Michael Myers • Randall Flagg Related portalsAssociated Wikimedia |
